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The movie didn't redeem him though. He didn't get his job back and ended the film on a road trip to kill a guy. The movie wasn't saying he's a good guy now in the same way McDormand's character wasn't necessarily in the right. It's meant to be ambiguous and start discussion.

Yes! And I think it would have been too neat/unrealistic if he had changed in his racism. That was simply a part of his personality, and the film wasn't about that part. It should be ok to feature three-dimensional racist characters in *stories* just like any other sort.

Doing so doesn't mean the racism is OK, just that the story isn't simplistic.

k but do you get why today, in 2018, with police brutality all over the news, and all over our lives, we might be a little miffed that police brutality is treated as a minor background detail in the life of a sympathetic character?

do you see why we might be a little miffed that this character never at any point is asked to come to terms with his racism, with any black characters, with any consequences for his violence against black people specifically?

Do you realize that not all movies need to have an ending where everyone is happy and everyone gets their comeuppance?

Yeah sure of course. I don't need him to have his comeuppance. But if a racist cop is going to have a redemption arc in 2018, that arc sure as hell better have SOMEthing to do with black people, and no, getting fired by his new black boss doesn't count.

But why though? So many arcs in that movie were left open ended. Peter Dinklage's character, the new chief, the son's bullying, etc. Why does that specific aspect need to have a resolution? Him being racist was part of his character, not part of the plot.